so what happened to the pilot? I think the gov got to him first before his fellow air men were able to mount a rescue. They were buying time by
having him fly in circles. I don t think aliens had anything to do with his dissapearance .... well not directly. I think he saw and was involved in
something that demands utmost secrecy and to keep that secret he was picked up first by the ..well i dunno MIB?

The article about the "incident at RAF Binbrook" is a rather distasteful and inaccurate portrayal of the death of Captain William Schaffner when his
Lightning jet crashed into the North Sea during September 1970.

I hope that the members of the "Fair Skeptic" Registry being discussed in a separate thread do not wait to be invited to criticize such offensive
material. They need to be proactive in commenting upon such material.

Nick Pope has written about the distress expressed by Captain Schaffner's sons about the UFO rumours concerning their father's death. Nick has
written: "The aircraft had crashed during a tactical evaluation exercise. Schaffner's aircraft was vectored onto a Shackleton, with a view to
practising low speed shadowing and shepherding. During the course of this difficult task, Schaffner flew his aircraft into the sea. There was no hint
of any UFO connection."

Various other British researchers (including Dave Clarke) have made similar comments following their research into the death of Captain Schaffner.

For discussion of this incident in various UFO books, see also:

Clarke, David and Roberts, Andy in their “Out of the Shadows” (2002) at pages 211-213 (in Chapter 11) of the Piatkus hardback edition.

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